Happy Birthday, Daniel!

Yesterday was my oldest son's 27th birthday!

He and Josh drove here from Chicago to celebrate 

Mother's Day with me and to celebrate his 27th! 

We went to lunch yesterday before their trip home by having 

lunch at BSpot, a trendy hamburger joint. Anthony and Liz were able to 

have lunch with us also.

Lunch was very good. I had a hamburger with pineapple, spam and 

swiss cheese. We were all so hungry we forgot to take any photos of the

delicious burgers! Anyway, the boys were repulsed by the spam 

on my burger (LOL!) but it was very good. I may try to make it at home.

I understand the restaurant is owned by Michael Symon, who

is part of the Iron Chef show.

After lunch I had some time to kill before my hair appointment and 

decided to go for a walk and view the ducks at one of our local parks.

There weren't too many ducks around but I did see one mama duck 

taking her babies out for a cruise on the pond. She kept a very fast pace around the 

pond and all her little babies kept up with her! It was fun to watch them paddle 

so furiously to keep up with her.

Happy Mother's Day!

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This is a photo from many, many years ago.

A four generation picture with my grandmother, Catherine,

my mother, Virginia, 

me, and my first child, Nancy.

Oh, the memories.

Friday Flowers

Our backyard is usually wet in the spring,

or at least damp. I've ruined many shoes walking

back there not realizing it was too wet until it

was too late. Well, the other day it was nice and dry so I 

wandered back there to check and see what plants

we have left. (My husband is always pulling up stuff.)

I love my peonies and was hoping he hadn't gotten tired of

them and ripped them out. I found them doing ok,

even found an ant on one of the flower heads.

My grandmother always had peonies and I love them. We don't have

all that much room to keep too many of them. I would probably have fields of them if I could!

She always said that if you 

don't have ants on the bushes, you won't get flowers. So I was 

quite glad to see a few ants on the peonies.

Joe also has planted these beautiful flowers right up along the 

whole back of the house. I have no idea what they are but this year they

turned out gorgeous!

On Wednesday when I came home I found a box in by the

front door. In it I found some very sweet and pretty roses.

My oldest son, Daniel, sent me these for Mothers Day!

Wasn't that sweet?

He knows I love flowers, after all I told both my boys that almost every

day when they were growing up! :)

I see you

What a pretty sunrise this morning.

Then about 20 minutes after I took

this photo it started to rain, hard.

Luckily, it almost stopped when I had to

leave for work. 

It did turn out to be a nice day.

Hope your day was nice too.

Tumbler top finished

I worked on the I Spy Tumbler quilt today.

I decided to try to use up some of the

Moda Marbles that I had on hand.

Blue won out as the border color with red as the

accent. However, when I got to the last couple of 

cuts I had to make I discovered I had to get more fabric.

So I went over to the quilt store for a quick visit.

While I was there I found a print I decided I want to use on

the back. I have the back washed and stitched together, just have to 

lay it out and pin.

This is a lousy picture but this is the finished top.

I hope to get a picture of the backing uploaded soon. 

Nine patch and tumblers

I finished hand quilting the yellow baby

quilt the other day. I drew a daisy design with a swirling

design connecting each daisy. If you click on the

picture you might be able to see the quilting. 

  I've added it to the quilt rack with all my baby quilts on it.

I think I now have 6-7 quilts on there. It is so much fun

to see the number of quilts on the rack grow! They are

so much fun to make, I don't know if I can give

any of these away.

I spent some time working on my I Spy tumbler

quilt today. I had decided I needed two more 

rows, which meant I needed about 18 more prints to

acquire. Finally, I realized I had enough to use and

sewed them to the quilt top. Now I just have to cut the

sides and add a black border. Of course, this may change.

I may just use some of the red I have as a border then add black.

It will depend on how I feel when I pick this quilt up again to 

finish it. I can never make up my mind. LOL!

One of the reasons I love scrap quilts is because of the memories

that I have with the different pieces. The mice fabric

was bought when my sister and mom and I met for

a weekend to shop at Fabric Shack near Dayton a few

years ago. We had a great girls weekend.

The chickens were from years ago when I was interested

in chicken fabrics, and I think the cookie fabric was from the

swaps I did around 2000. 

Doll quilt 2

This is the second of the most recent doll quilts 

made from leftover 2 inch squares.

I did find the box that I used to save my 2 inch squares,

I'm sure I can find something to do with these or 

maybe cut some more squares! LOL!

Oh, what to do on a day off!

Yesterday our microwave decided it was ready to go. It 

croaked just as Joe was ready to warm up his dinner. 

Of course, always when you really need it! 

So today I went to a couple of stores to look for a new microwave.

I also stopped off at the Goodwill to donate some old clothes and to see

what they had to offer. I don't understand how some

bloggers can find all the goodies they find. My Goodwill

rarely has any goodies to offer. I'm so jealous! 

I did see a couch that looked 

promising but as I walked toward it I realized why it was still in the

store. I do know the odor of a cat accident! I don't understand 

why they had it in the store. To me it smelled horrific!

When I got home I found a box of fabric in the mail, 

which always makes my day!

 I am planning on making a couple of new baby quilts

for a couple of friends who I just found out are expecting.

I don't have any pictures to share but I will tell you that I 

got some fat quarters of the Happy Campers fabric group by

Moda. Love the colors and the prints. 

I did stitch together some 2 in squares that I had left-over from the

baby quilts I made a few years ago.

I do need to get an updated photo of this one, as it is 

finished and on the quilt rack.

I guess I had a LOT of 2 inch squares! LOL!

I made this  doll quilt with part of the squares,

and I started another one with the last of the squares.

At least I think it is the last of the 2 in squares! LOL!!!

The border on this one is a very dark navy. I'm not quite 

sure how I will be quilting it. Hand or machine? I really only can

do straight quilting by machine. If I do hand quilting I was thinking

of doing a Baptist fan or something like that. Any ideas?

I'll take some photos tomorrow of the second doll quilt I 

put together and maybe some pictures of the fabric I received today.

:)

Spring!

I guess I'm not a good blogger but really not much has been going on here.

Work and home is about all I've done lately.

I've been doing a little down in the quilting room,

but not too much to show for it. I do have quite a mess though.

I've been starting to go through some of my fabric and cutting

squares, dresden plates, and tumblers charms from them. I even 

have a tiny pile of fabric I'm going to give to Goodwill, and believe

me it's hard for me to give up on a piece of fabric!

I've been collecting more ideas to use for future projects and
 wish I had more time to work on them.
 I'm hand quilting a baby quilt top that I finished
awhile ago and am almost done with that. I traced a daisy pattern
 with swirls connecting them to each other for the

quilting design. I just love this design and it is working up really fast.

I found out I need to make baby quilts for two friends of mine who just 

discovered they will be new parents. I want to do something different than 

what I normally do for my baby quilts.

I've also been watching a lot of movies on

Netflix while I've been downstairs in my sewing room.

I've enjoyed Jane Eyre, the Masterpiece Theatre 2006 version.

Love Francesca Annis as Jane and Toby Stephens as Rochester.

I've watched this version several times and will probably watch

it again.

I also have gone through the Sherlock Holmes with Jeremy Brett series and 

am now just finishing up the mystery series, Campion. Wish there were more.

Next I'm starting the Law and Order: Criminal Intent series from the beginning! 

Love Vincent D'Onofrio.

Till next time!